Tuesday, January 10, 2017
Marriage in The Odyssey
Marriage only lasts if two partners faithfulness to apiece different seems to be true and honest. The characters in The Odyssey by Homer display the struggle of loyalty amongst the partners. The Odyssey describes many examples of infidelity in espousals and a couples disloyalty to each other. This heroic poem poem lays break different types of challenges the characters face in their weddings. Most of the marriages in the epic poem are cut back up for failure, but nearly work appear. Agamemnon and Clytemnestra marriage ends awfully because of their dishonesty with each other. The marriage of Aphrodite and Hephaestus does not work out either due to the treacherous affair of Aphrodite. Penelope and Odysseus favored marriage works because of their payload to each other. Homer presents the endorser with a complex look of the importance of marriage, and how the gods contradict themselves and sack their make values.\nThe horrible marriage of Agamemnon and Clytemnestra doe s not end puff up because of their unfaithfulness. After Agamemnon killed their daughter, deceiving Clytemnestra in the process, he destroys the trust in their marriage. Clytemnestras enkindle grows for 20 years and she and her lover, Aegisthus, penalize Agamemnon by murdering him at a welcome fundament feast. Clytemnestras disloyalty to Agamemnon, and Agamemnons treason to her, failed their marriage. Agamemnon now resents all women for what his wife has done to him and tells this to Odysseus in Hades. So,/ theres nought more deadly, bestial than a woman/ set on works like these- what a monstrous thing/ she plotted, slaughtered her give birth lawful husband! (Homer 11: 484-487). While fighting in Troy, for 10 years he expects to come home to his wife and son. Agamemnon warns Odysseus not to trust his own wife when he returns home to Ithaca. Never reveal the full truth, whatever you may crawl in;/ just tell her a part of it, be current to hide the rest./ Not that you, Odys seus, get out be murdered by your wife.(11:5...
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
No comments:
Post a Comment